Shadows Cast by Retinal Blood Vessels Mapped in Primary Visual Cortex
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Shadows cast by retinal blood vessels mapped in primary visual cortex.
The mammalian eye is a remarkable optical device, but its design is not perfect. The blood vessels that supply the inner retina are located in front of the photoreceptor layer, blocking access to light. Their shadows create a pattern of blindness in the field of vision that corresponds precisely to the location of the largest vessels in the eye. We show here that in squirrel monkeys, focal depr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1074887